Boyband singer Shane Filan is seeking approval to build 42 four-bedroom family homes and Luciano Pavarotti's Italian villa is available to rent

At the time of his death, in 2007, the fortune of Luciano Pavarotti was
estimated at more than £200m. Then it emerged that the opera star, pictured
with his wife, Nicoletta, was millions of pounds in debt. Which may explain
why one of the tenor’s bequeathed properties — Villa Giulia, near Pesaro, in
the Le Marche region of Italy — is available to rent for ¤7,680 a week. It
has a music room, where Pavarotti used to sing, and sleeps 23 — that’s room
for nearly half an orchestra.

Filan applications

With ghost estates blighting the countryside and almost no demand for new
homes, you would expect those still in the development business to be
cooling their heels on the new-projects front. Not boyband singer/developer
Shane Filan. He is seeking approval to build 42 four-bedroom family homes
off the Ballisodare Road, near his hometown of Sligo.